The human genome has many short tandem repeats, yet the normal functions of these repeats are unclear.
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Donna Werling, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Use of the new human telomere-to-telomere genomic reference improves variant calling and phasing in regions flanking developmental disorder-associated copy number variants Legend: Genotyping and switch error rates spike in areas flanking CNV disorder associated regions. …
Marsha R. Mailick, PhD – Slide of the Week
Parenting a child with a developmental disability can be a profound source of stress, particularly for mothers.
Daifeng Wang, PhD – Slide of the Week
Cellular processes like development, differentiation, and disease progression are highly complex and dynamic (e.g., gene expression).
Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD – Slide of the Week
Although ALS has historically been characterized as a motor neuron disease, there is evidence that motor neurons degenerate in a retrograde manner, beginning in the periphery at the neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) and skeletal muscle.
Brittany G. Travers, PhD – Slide of the Week
…we found that the parvicellular reticular formation-alpha, a part of the brainstem thought to be involved in chewing, digesting food, heart rate, and breathing was related to individual differences in social communication in autistic children
John Svaren, PhD – Slide of the Week
Formation of myelin by Schwann cells is tightly coupled to peripheral nervous system development and is important for neuronal function and long-term maintenance.
André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critical for myriad high-cognitive functions and is associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders.
Rizvi Lab – Slide of the Week
Here, we report the spatial organization of RNA transcription and associated enhancer dynamics in the human spinal cord at single-cell and single-molecule resolution.
Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD – Slide of the Week
The endoplasmic reticulum acetylation machinery has emerged as a new branch of the larger endoplasmic reticulum quality control system.